siglan.

Etymology: Latin sigla neuter plural, perhaps a contracted form of sigilla , plural of sigillum sigil n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsigla.

a. Letters (esp. initials) or other characters used to denote words; abbreviations or marks of abbreviation. Also transferred and figurative.

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sigle1614

letter mark1671

sigla1706

1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)

1801 Gentleman's Mag. 71 ii. 1097 The characters..belong not to any alphabet, but are probably Sigla.

1832 W. Gell Pompeiana II. 122 The sigla which are supposed to be the private marks of the scribes.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 358 The small mark after the T is one of the sigla which it was customary in inscriptions..to put..before and after numeral letters.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift ii. 86 On the soft red sand one could make out the sigla of a summer day: the imprints of a dog's paws, the beaded tracks of a wagtail.

1973 D. Osmond-Smith tr. G. Bettetini Lang. & Technique of Film i. 61 If this image comes to be interpreted as the sigla of the preconceptual schema..it will only be of value for its semantic content.

b. Editorial designations of versions of an early literary text, esp. those used in the preparation of an edition. Also singular siglum.

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sigla1939

1939 R. B. McKerrow Prolegomena for Oxf. Shakespeare iii. 83 Round brackets enclosing a siglum are also used as a warning that the edition thus indicated has a reading which differs.

1950 Classica et Medievalia XI. 7 I prefer to use the same siglum for the New Testament and the Patrick section [of a manuscript].

1962 E. J. Dobson in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 128 I use the following sigla: A = MS. C.C.C.C. 402 (ed. J. R. R. Tolkien, E.E.T.S. 249, 1962); C = MS. Cotton Cleopatra C VI; [etc.].

1962 E. J. Dobson in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 128 References to any text other than A are preceded by the siglum of that text.

1975 Notes & Queries Feb. 53/2 Twenty texts of the Epistola Cuthberti are not recorded by Dobbie. We give them below; for each of those that Brotanek enumerates we give his siglum..; we also give some versions not listed by Brotanek, with our sigla.

Derivatives

siˈglarian adj. pertaining to sigla.

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initiala1714

siglarian1818

1818 C. Burney in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 643 Garrard is the only book on the Siglarian subject which I possess.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	sigla
释义	siglan. Etymology: Latin sigla neuter plural, perhaps a contracted form of sigilla , plural of sigillum sigil n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsigla. a. Letters (esp. initials) or other characters used to denote words; abbreviations or marks of abbreviation. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > letter > used as abbreviation sigle1614 letter mark1671 sigla1706 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) 1801 Gentleman's Mag. 71 ii. 1097 The characters..belong not to any alphabet, but are probably Sigla. 1832 W. Gell Pompeiana II. 122 The sigla which are supposed to be the private marks of the scribes. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 358 The small mark after the T is one of the sigla which it was customary in inscriptions..to put..before and after numeral letters. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift ii. 86 On the soft red sand one could make out the sigla of a summer day: the imprints of a dog's paws, the beaded tracks of a wagtail. 1973 D. Osmond-Smith tr. G. Bettetini Lang. & Technique of Film i. 61 If this image comes to be interpreted as the sigla of the preconceptual schema..it will only be of value for its semantic content. b. Editorial designations of versions of an early literary text, esp. those used in the preparation of an edition. Also singular siglum. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > designations of sigla1939 1939 R. B. McKerrow Prolegomena for Oxf. Shakespeare iii. 83 Round brackets enclosing a siglum are also used as a warning that the edition thus indicated has a reading which differs. 1950 Classica et Medievalia XI. 7 I prefer to use the same siglum for the New Testament and the Patrick section [of a manuscript]. 1962 E. J. Dobson in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 128 I use the following sigla: A = MS. C.C.C.C. 402 (ed. J. R. R. Tolkien, E.E.T.S. 249, 1962); C = MS. Cotton Cleopatra C VI; [etc.]. 1962 E. J. Dobson in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Studies 128 References to any text other than A are preceded by the siglum of that text. 1975 Notes & Queries Feb. 53/2 Twenty texts of the Epistola Cuthberti are not recorded by Dobbie. We give them below; for each of those that Brotanek enumerates we give his siglum..; we also give some versions not listed by Brotanek, with our sigla. Derivatives siˈglarian adj. pertaining to sigla. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [adjective] > letter used as abbreviation initiala1714 siglarian1818 1818 C. Burney in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 643 Garrard is the only book on the Siglarian subject which I possess. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1706
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